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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1897
Page
2
Local ads in the Daily and Weekly run at set rates by inch or word. Rates include one year five dollars and other periods, with discounts for repeat insertions and locals in black letters. Special contracts above five hundred lines receive quoted terms.
In the Kentucky General Assembly yesterday Dr. Hunter received fifty eight votes toward the needed sixty one for a choice. Three ballots produced no change and adjournment was moved to Friday. The lengthy discussion on the post office question was crowded out but to appear tomorrow.
The editorial agrees with the Herald that jailed poor should be housed by the county and that a stone pile could allow prisoners to work off fines and costs. Mrs. G J King and Emma David of Nashville were in the city yesterday.
The docket lists divorce action by Gieguit Tour t or t Cour t against Eva. Auvliman Miller & Co sue Silas Anderson on note for 150. Brown vs Brown et al issued partition in plaintiff's favor. Lynch faces charges today. Lola Stott v C R R case settled with $100. Moore v Wil assault case postponed for trial before Mayor Beck Monday at 2 pm. Two weary wanderers played bagpipe on the street with a gang of boys in tow. Funeral for Ben Noblitt’s little son held at his south Franklin Street residence yesterday at ten.
The Philadelphia Times notes social patterns in suicide acts with statistics from a physician studied by the paper. It cites that over one third of women who kill themselves are under 25, and that poverty sickness and desertion drive many. The physician adds that young women resist pain and suffering more than men, and that the young strong woman often dies rather than endure.
An advertisement touts Adamant Wall Finish as a cheaper, longer lasting alternative to paint and wallpaper, available in white and colored varieties and easy to apply. The note appears alongside miscellaneous medical and historical items about monotony, mental health, and a maritime tale of the Chesapeake repurposed as a flour mill in Wickham, Hampshire.
A long list of names including City Attorney W F Norton and City Engineer Joe K Righta appears beside numerous street intersections and place names such as Columbus Harrison Ruckcreek and Waynesville County Supt J A Wade. The fragment also notes addresses like 12 Second and Jackson and 138 Fifth and Brown with workplaces such as Mooreys Cannery Sterch Works and Reeves Pulley Works.
A Washington Star item highlights the anxious mindset of investors chasing rapid gains. A quoted interlocutor notes that even large profits breed dissatisfaction and urges investors to settle for fair returns while others chase new schemes. Separately, Cuban caves are being sealed year by year as snail shells cement limestone via evaporating water, threatening to erase many caverns.
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